Category: C-DOCTOR News

In October 2023, C-DOCTOR receives the CIRM Conference Grant in support of the 4th Annual Joint 2023 DOCTRC Retreat with C-DOCTOR and the MPWRM Resource Center. The conference will be held in Los Angeles, December 4-6. The objective of the CIRM Conference Grant is to support valuable mission-specific scientific conferences where people assemble to exchange scientific information and explore specific scientific subject relevant to CIRM’s mission. Under this program, the joint DOCTRC retreat aligns with CIRM’s short and long-term goals and addresses critical topics related to stem cell-based therapy and discovery/stem cell biology. 

From the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC: ASSOCIATE DEAN OF RESEARCH Yang Chai PhD ’91, DDS ’96 has been awarded the 2023 Paul Goldhaber Award by the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. The highest honor given by the school, the award goes to a recipient who is held in the highest international esteem in his or her field relating to oral and systemic health. The award letter notes Chai’s “outstanding national and international contributions to teaching and research in oral health science.” Click here to read more: https://dentistry.usc.edu/university-professor-yang-chai-wins-2023-harvard-school-of-dental-medicines-paul-goldhaber-award/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/18/yang-chai-goldhaber-award/

C-DOCTOR and DOCTRC deliver an interactive talk titled “DOCTRC: A Consortium Accelerating Tissue Engineering/Regenerative Medicine Therapies” to share about DOCTRC’s efforts to serve as the nation’s consortium for accelerating regenerative therapies for dental, oral, and craniofacial tissues towards clinical adoption and product commercialization.

The 2023 C-DOCTOR Annual Spring Retreat brought C-DOCTOR leadership, Interdisciplinary Project teams, advisors, NIH/NIDCR program staff, and trainees together. The goal of the retreat was to hear updates from the project teams, formulate strategies on how to best shepherd their technologies to clinical adoption, and develop approaches to measuring the return on investment of our program’s model.

Congratulations to C-DOCTOR for receiving a CIRM Conference Grant for retreat!

C-DOCTOR and DOCTRC deliver an interactive talk titled “Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration Consortium” to share about DOCTRC’s progress in shepherding their portfolio of tissue regeneration technologies addressing unmet clinical needs in the dental, oral, and craniofacial field to human clinical trials.

Congratulations to the “Prevention of Scar Formation in the Skin Using Topical Focal Adhesion Kinase Inhibitors” ITP team led by Geoffrey Gurtner on their IND submission.

The Hydronovo ITP team publishes “Long-term functional regeneration of radiation-damaged salivary glands through delivery of a neurogenic hydrogel” in Science Advances. Click here to read more: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adc8753?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed Click here to read more about the Hydronovo ITP team: https://c-doctor.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hydronovo-Salivary-Gland-Regeneration-Knox.pdf

C-DOCTOR PI Dr. Michael Longaker publishes “Exploring the Overlooked Roles and Mechanisms of Fibroblasts in the Foreign Body Response” in “Advances in wound care”. Click here to read more: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10.1089/wound.2022.0066